We began this week by attending the National Prayer Breakfast at Ft. Drum. It was put into law by Pres. Eisenhower years ago. It was mostly attended by soldiers with breakfast and a speaker and a prayer for the country and the soldiers. On Monday we had our Young Adult dinner for the month. We are always glad when that is done, but we always get a great response to it. We do lots of different things each week such as driving a girl down to Syracuse for a counseling session, replacing a battery in a single soldier mom's car, visiting many others. We had two memorable visits this week. We went to a home for dinner with the Elders and the little boy, about 18 months old wanted Dad to pick him up and when he did he gave him about a 10 minute hug, just hanging on tight. He obviously missed his dad. Another visit was meant to be. We took dinner to an inactive family whose husband was gone and when we knocked on the door he answered. It turns out that their little boy was diagnosed with leukemia and they sent the dad straight home to be with his family. He is being treated and doing fairly well. We were able to report to the Bishop today about it and they were setting up help for the family. Friday was Dad's birthday so we took our P Day and went to visit the Boxing Hall of Fame in Conastoga and the Oneida silverware factory store in Oneida. It was the first warm day in so long and we had fun. We send our love to all. Thanks for the birthday calls and cards!
We began this week by attending the National Prayer Breakfast at Ft. Drum. It was put into law by Pres. Eisenhower years ago. It was mostly attended by soldiers with breakfast and a speaker and a prayer for the country and the soldiers. On Monday we had our Young Adult dinner for the month. We are always glad when that is done, but we always get a great response to it. We do lots of different things each week such as driving a girl down to Syracuse for a counseling session, replacing a battery in a single soldier mom's car, visiting many others. We had two memorable visits this week. We went to a home for dinner with the Elders and the little boy, about 18 months old wanted Dad to pick him up and when he did he gave him about a 10 minute hug, just hanging on tight. He obviously missed his dad. Another visit was meant to be. We took dinner to an inactive family whose husband was gone and when we knocked on the door he answered. It turns out that their little boy was diagnosed with leukemia and they sent the dad straight home to be with his family. He is being treated and doing fairly well. We were able to report to the Bishop today about it and they were setting up help for the family. Friday was Dad's birthday so we took our P Day and went to visit the Boxing Hall of Fame in Conastoga and the Oneida silverware factory store in Oneida. It was the first warm day in so long and we had fun. We send our love to all. Thanks for the birthday calls and cards! 
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